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Connecting laptop to monitor: What determines resolution?
Hi all, I aim to connect a laptop to a monitor. What would determine the screen resolution achievable on this secondary monitor? The graphics card? What is the likelihood of a laptop with onboard graphics card running on a secondary monitor at 1920x1080?
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would you buy this laptop
I am not sure if this Toshiba is a good reliable one We only use it for Banking, surfing, Facebook, forums like these, ebay and editing pictures TOSHIBA C650-1CN 15.6IN LAPTOP @ £273.98 Delivered and a 12 month warranty. Item Description Numeric Keypad. CPU and Memory: Intel Celeron dual core T3300. 2GHz processor speed.…
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External HDD & MKV player
Hello, Im going to order a Sumvision Cyclone Micro 2 Multi Media MKV Player Adaptor (on Ebuyer) and am looking for an external HDD's to save my films to but I also want make a small partition (100GB?) to backup my PC data. The HDD I am looking at is 'Western Digital Elements 1TB USB 2.0 Desktop External Hard Drive - Black'…
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Anyone used Jack Of All Games?
Not sure if this is the right place for this, but just wanted to ask if anyone had used the Jack of All Games website to buy any of their techie stuff? I made a transaction on their on 30/12 just before VAT increase, but haven't received the item. Numerous emails sent but no contact, or emails back. They took my money from…
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how do I get my microphone working?
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop which was new a year ago. Last Feb/March I used to take my laptop to my singing lessons so that I could play my itunes songs during the lesson. But turned out my microphone was giving feedback so somehow I managed to disable it. However I now have absolutely no idea how to re-enable it. I have…
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Windows has detected an IP conflick
Windows has detected an IP conflick, another computer on the network has the same IP address as this computer. Could someone advise please! I'm on a usb sim data dongle.Thanks!
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Dongle
I've just got a new netbook and enquired in Carphone Warehouse today about a dongle. I unfortunately spoke to the rudest most unhelpful person I could probably find... just my luck! My question was, I usually pop online on my iphone, which is fine to check emails, but not so great for university work. I think I basically…
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VLC Player
For reasons beyond my comprehension, VLC Player is playing up, would not let me view .mkv files and when propmpted to upgrade fro VLC 1.1.2 to 1.1.5, installation cannot progress for reasons I cannot understand. Has this happened to anyone else?
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laptop- prob connection to public / other wireless internet - pls help
hi- grateful for any help pls, Laptop running windows, email via mozilla thunderbird, internet via firefox - wireless internet / email works fine at home, used to work on other public (but password protected) connections, i travel to quite a lot of sports clubs - i can pick up an connection, my laptop accepts the password…
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Connecting laptop to TV how to get sound from TV
I have an acer aspire laptop which I have connected through HMDI cable to my TV. I have got the picture fine but can anybody advise how I can get the sound through the TV rather than the laptop?
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help new laptop not what we expected
:mad:We ordered a Samsung R730 17" Laptop in the next directory this is the description:- HD Led Screen, Intel 13 330m, Supermulti drive, cardreader and wifi, item 726-496-x46 I thought that the laptop we were ordering was a i3 processor. Next are telling me it is a intel 13 I said I dont think that exists, i think it has…
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Where to DL a FULL version of AVG...?
Anyone know where I can D/L a full version of AVG (free version) which can be saved to memory stick so I can transfer to a non-internet connected puter? Thanks!
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Help finding correct replacement CPU
I am in need of a replacement CPU unit, wondered if somebody could help me find one. I have AMD Athlon 64 processor 3700+ 2020 GHz with 3gb ram but i remember reading that you have to be careful about which brand to buy. Can anybody recommend a decent one but cheapest possible please. If any more info needed please let me…
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Slow windows computer - how to make it faster
I've got a dell desktop computer running vista sp2. It's got an intel quad core processor, a half decent graphics card and 2gb of ram. It runs so slowly though. I regularly run a virus scan on it and also regularly do full system scans with spybot and malwarebytes so I'm pretty sure there are no viruses or malware on…
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Digital Camera for <£70?
I'm planning on going on an extended holiday and would like a cheap point and shoot camera, ideally for less than £70. Since I know nothing about cameras I don't need it to do a dance every time I turn it on, I just need it to take half-decent snapshots. I should probably also add that I primarily use a Mac, so something…
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Toshiba laptop ethernet woe
I bought a Satellite R630 in October. After Christmas the ethernet port broke: the connector no longer clicked into place and even when held in manually, the port no longer functions. I need this as I live in a house with thick stone walls, so can't connect wirelessly -- I have been connecting to the router with an…
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Connecting laptop to stereo
Hello there, I'm sitting here gazing at two semi-broken stereos, neither of which have aux outputs (only headphone plugs) and some broken laptop speakers. I merrily bought an RCA cable without checking the backs... Is there any way I can hook one of the stereos up to my laptop without an aux output? I am happy to open up…
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acer charger packed in or battery
my acer laptop is not charging its 2 1/2 years old, still in good shape. But for some reason it seems to be not taking a charge the battery lasts on average 10 mins now, so we have it plugged in constantly which doesn't bother us. now the charge box plugged in shows a green light, but plugged into the laptop it doesn't…
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McAfee turning off
I have just caught my 3 year old on my PC and I don't know what he went into.He was on a site that was just ticking over and I switched off immediatley. Since then, my McAfee keeps turning off and I keep getting warning messages. I think he's put a virus in - what can I do? Thanks
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PS3 cracked wide open.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbaeKA2moE&feature=player_embedded Is this the final nail in the Coffin for PS3, will Sony now just concentrate on the PS4?
